Member representing Yagba Federal Constituency at the House Representatives, Honourable Leke Abejide, is sustaining efforts to mitigate the holiday time traumas, of his constituents in Yagbaland and indeed Okunland, on their yuletide travels. About two months ago, Abejide in response to the pains of commuters on decrepit access roads in Yagba federal constituency, commenced the palliative works. With the major road artery through the area fallen into worrisome disrepair, characterised by gullies, lacerations and general unmotorability, Abejide commissioned the scraping, filling and compaction of the road. Workers on the road, have been functioning round the clock, virtually, to deliver on…
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From Abel Abogonye, Lafia Following the murder of 45 farmers by killer herdsmen, over 5000 Internally Displaced Persons IDPs are currently in three camps amidst cold weather and no food situation. The IDPs who are mainly Tiv fled their homes over fear of further attacks by the rampaging killer herdsmen in Awe, Obi and Lafia local councils. Our correspondent who visited some of the IDPs camps noted that children and women form the majority with little or no sleeping spaces and poor sanitary facilities. At the time of the visit majority of the IDPs said the state government had not…
For Nigeria to turn it’s myriads of challenges into success stories it has to embrace Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) as key to ensuring economic growth, the President Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Engr. Babagana Mohammed, has indicated.Mohammed gave the indication at the graduation ceremony of the Young Entrepreneurs’ Club (YECLUB) pilot Public School Co-Corricular TVET Project Abuja.The program was Sponsored by a non-governmental organisation (NGO), Ladi Memorial Foundation (LMF) through its Chateko Vocational Institute (CVI). The NSE President urged professionals to focus more attention on promoting the culture of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) by encouraging mentorship,…
By Ahmad Rufa’i, Dutse The Jigawa state Government has allocated 400 hectares of land to Federal Fovernment for the construction of permeant sites of three Federal higher institutions established in the state. The Commissioner for Land, Housing and Urban Development, Honourable Sagir Ahmed made the disclosure while speaking at the Weekly Media Engagement Forum organized by the state Correspondent Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ)He said “vast lands have been given as permanent site for the new higher Institutions established by the Federal Government”. The commissioner explained that 200 hectres is for the Federal University of Technology in…
Stakeholders have challenged christian, Muslim and traditional religion leaders to step up the responsibility of contributing to the collective reengineering and moral rearmament urgently needed to salvage the nation, in fulfilling their roles as religious leaders and pulpit managers. This was part of the consensus reached according to a communique issued after an inclusive, open dialogue recently in Abuja through the collaboration of Vision Africa (VA) and the Global Peace Foundation (GPF); which was facilitated by the President of Vision Africa, Bishop Sunday Onuoha. The inclusive security dialogue had in attendance, key stakeholders and elder statesmen, namely; former president Chief…
From Naseer Mijinyawa Minna It has been discovered that Armed bandits in Niger State usually carry out intensive initiatives on communities before launching their offensive attacks, Special adviser on security matters to the Niger State Governor, Gen(rtd) Ndagulu Abubakar Imam has indicated.He spoke when he appeared before the Justice Danladi Ahmed Baddegi Judicial Commission of inquiry sitting in Minna.He disclosed that 99 percent of the attacks on most of the communities were being carried out by armed bandits adding that whenever such incident occured in any of the communities, the first place to get information from is the Local Government…
From Naseer Mijinyawa Minna The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has deployed 1,200 personnel across all formations and the 25 local government areas in Niger State aimed at beefing up security during, after the Christmas and New year festivities. The state commandant of the Corps Mr Haruna Bala Zurmi stated this while addressing officers and men of the command at the state headquarters of the corps in Minna Thursday.He admonished personnel of the command to be more proactive and vigilant, live above board in curtailing any act inimical to security in their respective areas of duty.He reiterated the…
***Says She has a date with an investigative panel of auditors Chairman Board of Trustees, Participation Initiative for Behavioural Changes in Development (PIBCD) Dr. Mohammed Momoh Usman has alerted the general public about a fake news that Executive Director of PIBCID Ms Halima Oiza Sadiq has resigned. In a statement that was signed by the chairman BOT which was made available to NationalUpdate on Thursday, he said the alleged resignation of Ms Sadiq is a blatant lie against the BOT of PIBCIDSome online media have been awashed with the news that Ms Halima Oiza Sadiq, Executive Director, Participation Initiative for…
From Abel Daniel, Lafia Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has sworn in 14 commissioners and 18 Special Advisers to to rejig his cabinet. The Governor commended the car members of the House of Assembly under the leadership of Rt. Hon Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi for accelerated screening and confirmation of the Commissioners. Sule while congratulating the newly appointed commissioners and advisers urged them to imbibe the spirit of hardwork, self sacrifice in their various ministries.The new Commissioners and their portfolios were listed to inlude; Hon Yakubu Kwanta- Environment and Natural Resources. Yusuf Aliyu Turaki-Local Government, Chieftaincy Affairs and Community Development.Hajiya…
By Ahmed Rufa’i Dutse The Jigawa State house of Assembly speaker, Rt. Honourable Idris Garba Kareka and the clerk of the house, Mal. Musa Aliyu Abubakar were caught fiddling with their cell phones while the 2022 appropriation bill of N177,795,588, 000was being passed in to law. The chairman house committee on appropriation, Honourable Suleiman Musa Kadira presented the committee’s report following which the lawmakers unanimously approved the report and passed it in to law. The state appropriation was signed by the speaker shortly after that.However, during the plenary some members of the public and newsmen who were at the gallery…